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Definition of Blenny
1. Noun. Small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks.
Generic synonyms: Blennioid, Blennioid Fish
Group relationships: Blenniidae, Family Blenniidae
Specialized synonyms: Blennius Pholis, Shanny, Molly Miller, Scartella Cristata
Definition of Blenny
1. n. A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.
Definition of Blenny
1. Noun. Any of various marine fishes from the suborder ''Blennioidei'' that are generally small and dwell on the sea floor. ¹
2. Noun. A number of similar but unrelated fish throughout the world. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blenny
1. a marine fish [n -NIES]
Medical Definition of Blenny
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Origin: L. Blennius, blendius, blendea, Gr, fr. Slime, mucus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blenny
Literary usage of Blenny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fauna Orcadensis: Or, The Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles by George Low (1813)
"THE blenny. Gen. Char.—-Head blunt at the end, and very steep ... THE Spotted
blenny is found very frequently under stones at the low water-mark, ..."
2. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1852)
"On the Scales of the Viviparous blenny ... to my remembrance some notes made
about ten years since on the structure of the skin of the viviparous blenny, ..."
3. Fauna Orcadensis: Or, The Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles by George Low (1813)
"THE blenny. Gen. Char.—-Head blunt at the end, and very steep ... THE Spotted
blenny is found very frequently under stones at the low water-mark, ..."
4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1852)
"On the Scales of the Viviparous blenny ... to my remembrance some notes made
about ten years since on the structure of the skin of the viviparous blenny, ..."
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